News: Pruitt won't kill EPA 'endangerment' finding on climate change

John Voelcker Apr 25, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, 2014 Enlarge Photo The current EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, does not accept the scientific consensus on human contribution to climate change, though he has given some contradictory statements on that matter. His views correspond closely to those of his boss, President Donald Trump, who notoriously compared the science to bovine excrement in a tweet and called climate change a hoax created by China to hurt the U.S. But even Pruitt, it seems, does not plan to challenge a key agency finding on climate science. DON'T MISS: Automakers seek deal to delay EPA's 2022-2025 emission rules According to an article in The New York Times two weeks ago, Pruitt has infuriated the right wing of his party by declining to reopen the "endangerment finding." He has told both Congress and the White ...